Well even if I wanted to go back to Reddit, I couldn’t use it without a decent mobile app, and all of those no longer exist.
Communities don’t spring up fully formed, they grow over time with many rises and falls in activity along the way. Lemmy is still young and we can all do our part to help it.
And using the mobile web site is a pain in the ass, too. Won’t stop nagging me to use the app. No, I do not want to use your shitty app!
At this point I only use it when a thread comes up in a search result, or occasionally to check /r/buildapcsales
It’s not nice but it works for the couple of times a week I check some specific subs that I want to stay in.
old.reddit might be discontinued. Reddit is already torn apart
Yeah the thing about Lemmy is that people immediately expect it to be a reddit clone with all the same niche communities. Reddit didn’t start off with thousands of communities on Day 1. It started off as Reddit. Then they added NSFW and pics. It took decades to grow. People that expect Lemmy to appear with all those same communities overnight but it’s just not gonna happen. You’ve got to give it time. Instead of posting in your favorite football team’s community, you might have to post to the NFL community. Eventually as we grow, more niche communities will spring up.
Does it matter if Lemmy is losing users? I haven’t noticed my feeds losing active users even if it’s down across the fediverse. Besides they’ll be back the next time Reddit has another unpopular decision which should take about another 3 months
I think it very much matters WHY Lemmy is losing users. If it’s a fixable problem, well then we should fix it gahdamnit
I think it’s hard to maintain a critical mass in an anonymous social media/aggregator. You need enough fresh content to satisfy users, and you need enough users to provide that user driven content.
If you’re only in the popular Lemmy channels then you probably wouldn’t notice the users leaving, but the small communities are the first to go.
The main problem is just that it’s harder to get started with it than it is to just hop on another social media site and browse. It requires a bit of effort, and that’s like being second to start a race. It’s always going to be hard to catch up.
Good point
Exactly. I would never have guessed Lemmy is losing users if every other meme wasn’t about it. Stuff still seems just as lively now as it was a couple months ago.
It’s weird right? I checked the active user monthly and across the lemmyverse it’s indeed plunging slowly, but the content seems to be growing despite that, significantly better than from june to august.
Though the instance i’m on is very slow.
plunging slowly
Thanks for a new oxymoron
It’s like highspeed trainwreck in slow motion.
I wonder if it’s just instances going down for a while, I know the one i am on goes down every now and then, and sometimes takes over a week to get back and running. I could see something like that causing the active users to fluctuate, especially if they wait a month before realizing their instance wasn’t deleted.
Hmm, might not be, because as long as someone commented/posted in that month it count as active user, so basically as long as the instance is up and someone is posting/commenting, it will count. I feels like it’s mostly barely active people stop showing up, so a slow decline is seen for this two months
Users who made multiple accounts across multiple instances to deal with constant outages are just not using their alts as much. No need to.
The amount of regular posts has gone up, too, so that means the people who are staying are more consistently interacting
Hello! I am one of these people.
Can we leave the cringe self censorship behind? Lemmy isn’t beholden to advertisers and thus has no need to be “family friendly”
but it seems more naughty that way
Not very surprising to lose users after the big intake from June. If that were the only intake we’d ever get I would be worried but we all know that Reddit will continue to do user-hostile things. Lemmy now exists as a permanent lifeboat for those who get fed up with Reddit over time, and the next time something big happens we’ll be better prepared.
Honored to have my meme reposted. Fuxk Spez
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This is how I would feel about it. Stoked someone liked it enough.
Losing users is fine as long as a steady core remains. The summer growth was explosive, so some shrinking is expected.
Also I’m sure there were a lot of accounts made on different intances before people settled into one account
Absolutely. I had like 5 or 6 accounts created in that period, some on instances I don’t even remember. Now I just have this one and my lemmynsfw for scientific research.
Is this what people are on about when they ejaculate the word “SCIENCE” all over?
I visited old.reddit a few times in the last week, after deleting my 10+ yo account in July and ditching Reddit altogether, and it just isn’t the same anymore. The content just isn’t good like it used to be.
Lemmy has plenty of room for improvement, and often feels like it’s just an RSS feed, but I genuinely prefer it now over current Reddit.
Fuck Spez.
For anyone who still checks reddit, Rdx.overdevs.com is an a mobile-friendly way to browse. No ads and you can still view nsfw subs. You can import a list of subs you follow, but you can’t post (which to me is a feature more than a bug).
There’s not QUITE enough content here for my short-ass attention span, but I DO come here first and I’ve stopped all posting on the other place.
I’ve gone from 20+ hours weekly on a third party app, to 30 minutes weekly on old.reddit. it’s such a shame, because I was really enjoying the niche communities and especially the f1 subreddit.
I DO come here first and I’ve stopped all posting on the other place.
I post here first and then cross-post on Reddit to drive more traffic here :)
I see a little bit while moderating there, but as soon as I open the comment sections on some posts I lose interest
A lot of the subs I used to read are now very low quality and toxic with users getting into fights and rule breaking content staying up
I get more engagement here so Reddit can suck it
Agreed, I’m sticking with the fediverse for my social media no matter how small it gets because corporate social media is just that incredibly toxic.
Yeah, I’ve been spending more time on Discord lately, but I’m sure not going back to reddit. Tbh I’ve really disconnected from spaces where I was/would be exposed to right wing extremists and hatred of me. Instagram obviously has it’s problems, but the algorithm won’t allow me–a trans lesbian stoner–to view hateful content without a fight. If I need to see some fringe beliefs and content, I’ll dive head first into the Hexbear pool!
We have already matured significantly since the initial rush. There will be another rush, and we’ll be in an even better state then.
I cheat on Lemmy with Tumblr but Reddit is the ex I shook.
Since when is lemmy losing users
